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What is Beauty?...

10/30/2017

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​What is beauty? We have often heard the old proverb, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” which is so true because our emotions play a factor in how we identify beauty. Magazines are filled with beautiful people advertising products to make us prettier, more handsome, thinner, stronger and faster. There have been exhaustive studies about how we, especially women, compare ourselves to the pictures we see and strive to live up to or into who we see as the ideal person. All of the comparisons to the unrealistic photos can be damaging to a person’s self-esteem. The magazine models do extensive touch-ups to ensure the models are a perfect size with perfect skin and hair and this perfection has led ordinary women to believe their value is based on who they should be or look like rather than who they are. The pressure to be thin, strong and pretty has hit close to home as I too have compared myself to 30-year-olds who look good in anything they wear.  Many confident older women claim their aging skin and graying hair are a badge of honor that they have earned. I am proud of them but honestly the desire to claim that badge escapes me. I admire their confidence and acceptance of who they are as well as their comfort level and peace of the aging process. 

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Traditions...

10/24/2017

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We are slowing marching our way into a season that is rich in tradition and celebration. In a few days we will be handing out candy to all of the scary “trick or treaters,” and not a bit envious of parents who will try to curtail their children’s “sugar highs” before bed.  Once Halloween has come and gone we look forward to Thanksgiving with all of the turkey trimmings, family, football and of course naps. Then of course let us not forget “Black Friday!” This yearly retail extravaganza begins the Christmas shopping season. There are many holiday traditions such as children’s programs, caroling, decorating, gift-wrapping, as well as sitting on the lap of the man dressed in red that we enjoy during this festive season. While giving gifts has become popular regardless of any faith tradition, Christians, in particular look forward to celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus in a manger. Both Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are celebrated during this time too and each has their own rich traditions that commemorate their heritage. And last but not least, we end the year by watching the ball drop ringing in the New Year and fresh starts. Each of these traditional events differs according to who we are, where we live and our family heritage.


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See the Church...

10/17/2017

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​Lately, I have been thinking about freedom and all of the facets this one word holds depending on one’s experiences and how each of us was raised. One of the freedoms that I have taken for granted is the freedom to worship. Going to church and celebrating my faith in God alone or in community has been intrinsic to who I am. Gratefully I have been able travel to other countries and tour churches and cathedrals in Italy, Greece, Germany, Turkey and Washington D.C. Their statuesque facades and the beautiful structures are a sight to behold however it is the local community church, which has had the most direct influence on me as a Christian.


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Fun Facts...

10/10/2017

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This week I wanted to change this space up a bit. I needed to think about some nonsensical so I found some fun facts for your entertainment…Enjoy!

Interesting Facts
1. If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
2. Mc Donalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”
3. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
4. The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.
5. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
6. There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
7. Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.
8. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
9. One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
10. If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you.
11. A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.
12. A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
13. James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president continuously bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.
14. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
15. The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
16. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
17. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.
18. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
Fun Facts
19. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
20. A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.
21. Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.
22. New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.
23. A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.
24. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
21. Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.
22. It would take a sloth one month to travel one mile.
23. 10% of the World’s population is left-handed.
24. A broken clock is right two times every day.
25. According to Amazon, the most highlighted books on Kindle are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
26. Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were “Money can’t buy life.”
27. A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night.
28. A hippo’s wide-open mouth is big enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child in.
29. Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
30. If you were to stretch a Slinky out until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.
31. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
32. There are more collect calls on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year.
33. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
34. 95% of people text things they could never say in person.
35. A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out.
36. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
37. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
http://www.livin3.com/50-cool-and-weird-fun-facts-that-you-should-know
 
 
 


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Catalyst of Change...

10/3/2017

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Every Tuesday our worship staff gets together to plan the services for the next two Sundays. We begin each meeting with a devotion and prayer to help center our minds and hearts as we work through planning process. This past week for our devotion, we were asked to share a short story about a time when our lives were changed in some way. Along with the story, we were supposed to build an imaginary Play-Doh image of the catalyst of our change. With each story, books, retreat centers, and even our own church sanctuary were created in our minds. Each of the stories was meaningful and gave us an opportunity to learn more about one another as coworkers in ministry.


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